Everything is coming up Trump.
Teflon Don beat the prosecutors, the persecutors, the professional political establishment.
He won the popular vote, the policy debates, the preeminent trifecta of single-party control in Washington – and reminded our Congressional lawmakers that it is their duty to give the people what they want: a better economy, tighter border, energy dominance, peace through strength, fairness and freedom.
The Senate, long known as a place where good ideas go to die, is now readying legislation, has formed a new department of efficiency and has signaled strong support and swift confirmation of Trump’s cabinet nominees.
Once-lefty corporate titans, meanwhile, are ponying up for Trump’s Inauguration, scurrying to Mar-a-Lago and scrubbing their websites of anti-Trump rhetoric.
They are also ditching causes that sucked up time, treasure and talent: CRT, BLM, ESG, DEI.
‘USA’ is the acronym in vogue now.
NFL players have stopped kneeling during the National Anthem and started doing the Trump dance.
In an extreme case of ‘If you can’t beat him, join him’, Democrats like John Fetterman and even Barack Obama are yukking it up with Trump after mucking it up with Kamala.
Once silenced, shadow-banned and censored, conservatives are sprawling and substantive on social, while MAGA influencers infuse new media like podcasts and TikTok.
Post-election, Fox News has posted monster ratings as CNN and MSNBC bleed viewers who were falsely promised by the cocksure elites that Trump would be carted off to the Big House and never return to the White House.
As the 45th President is sworn in as the 47th President today, throngs of patriotic, enthusiastic Americans are turning up for the Great American Glow Up.
As for the man himself, his tone, content and intent are positive, optimistic, hopeful and collaborative.
‘The people gave us a big opportunity,’ Trump told me recently. ‘They want peace, strong borders, strong economy, safe streets.’
Looking back and reminiscing together about his 2016 triumph, I now hear the same strong, resolute leader with a sense of humor, gift for storytelling and pride for a country that loves him back.
Yet so much is different. This time, Trump knows Washington, the power of the executive pen and the art of the DC deal. America is a place of second chances. Donald J. Trump got the biggest one imaginable.
The massive victory and mandate for change has only grown since November 5, the day Trump defeated another would-be woman president and her billions-dollar war chest.
Under Biden-Harris, the country was seeing red. With Trump-Vance, the country is red.
Trump swept the swings and sliced margins among core Democrat constituencies and left-leaning states. Fair-minded Americans are giving him the space and grace to succeed.
According to recent CNN polling, 52 percent say they have positive feelings about a second Trump term.
Trump’s net favorability is also positive for the first time ever. A majority of voters expect him to do a good job when he returns to office, and more than half of America approves of the way he has handled the transition.
Many welcome a return to the great Trump policies of the past – or, as incoming White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles says, the ‘enviable list of accomplishments’ from his first term.
Indeed, Trump has promised to tackle on Day One challenges with inflation and migration, Israel and Ukraine, an unfair tax code, an uneven educational system, imbalanced trade and a burdensome regulatory structure.
It goes without saying that his personal energy bests Biden’s, while his energy policies are superior to the morass of climate change compliance/EV mandates/war on fossil fuels and fracking nonsense imposed by the Democrats.
Deprived of American leadership for four years, world leaders are now writing, calling and begging to for facetime at the White House.
The Trump Bump is real.
Small-business optimism recently posted the biggest monthly gain since 1980. Consumer confidence is at its highest level in years. Bitcoin keeps on climbing. CEOs across the nation promise to up domestic investment, and increase hiring.
From his iconic buildings’ golden decor to serving up fries at the Golden Arches, and ushering in a new golden age of prosperity, Trump is back. So is America.